Association of body composition parameters measured on CT with risk of hospitalization in patients with Covid-19.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To assess prognostic value of body composition parameters measured at CT to predict risk of hospitalization in patients with COVID-19 infection.

Methods

177 patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection and with abdominopelvic CT were included in this retrospective IRB approved two-institution study. Patients were stratified based on disease severity as outpatients (no hospital admission) and patients who were hospitalized (inpatients). Two readers blinded to the clinical outcome segmented axial CT images at the L3 vertebral body level for visceral adipose tissue (VAT), subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT), muscle adipose tissue (MAT), muscle mass (MM). VAT to total adipose tissue ratio (VAT/TAT), MAT/MM ratio, and muscle index (MI) at L3 were computed. These measures, along with

SUBMITTER: Chandarana H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8592118 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature